411A, I'll encourage you with a response on this occasion as I probably worded it badly. I don't want to give anyone a 'bloody nose' really, but I do want to collectively send the message that "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH".
Hand Solo, We'll have to agree to disagree on that then. Even BALPA have agreed that the status quo is not defensible any more.
I would not have drawn my pension at 55 anyway as long as I was still working somewhere else.
Now I'm going to work longer for BA and get twice as much pension for doing so. That suits me, even though it may cost me hard cash in reality. My reality says that the pensions world has changed a lot and I needed to change with it. I am going to be immeasurably better off in my retirement than I expected to be six years ago... I don't expect to be getting 'double bubble' for the last ten years of my working life too.
For the avoidance of doubt though, I'm not defending BA's proposals at all - just saying that in my eyes it could have been worse.
I am fully behind BALPA's bottom line and completely trust Kevin Judkins and his CC colleagues to recommend the correct course of action, which will hopefully involve the company moving further in it's offer. If they don't and BALPA want my support, they shall receive it wholeheartedly. My 'build-it-yourself' brazier kit is almost finished and I have an arrangement to miss up to three months of mortgage payments in place.